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How Daniel 9 works with the Sabbatical Year
PowerPoint to Illustrate this Post.
http://www.torahtimes.org/PowerPoint/Daniel_9_Halaphta.ppt
PowerPoint to Illustrate this Post.
http://www.torahtimes.org/PowerPoint/Daniel_9_Halaphta.ppt
Hi all,
Did you know that the late first century A.D. Rabbis deliberately sabotaged biblical chronology so that no one would be able to figure out Daniel 9 correctly? And they did that because if you correctly compute the chronology it leads to one firm conclusion: Yeshua is the Messiah. Then the Proto-Catholic Church jumped in and aided and abetted them in the sabotage to varying degrees because biblical chronology tends to highlight the Torah and Prophets, and NOooooo, the Church did not want to go there --- especially Marcion the Gnostic who was a very popular Christian speaker and writer about that time, who decided that only the Gospel of Luke and Paul's letters were canonical
Let's start with the more grievous error first. Rabbi Halaphta is the author of the Jewish Chronicle Seder Olam, which is part of the Talmud and was first written around A.D. 140. He computed Daniel 9 so that the time between the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the second Temple in A.D. 70 would be 490 years. If he could make it fit that way, then Daniel 9 couldn't be used for Yeshua, and that's what the Rabbis believe to this day.
In order to pull off this stunt, Rabbi Halaphta had to sabotage the bible and history:
1. He deleted a year at the beginning of the world, and was copied by Christian Chronologists including Ussher. Anytime someone tells you the flood was in the year 1656 of the world, you are witness to this error. The right answer is 1657 for the simple reason that Adam was not age-1 until the end of his first year. That's step 1 to messing up the sabbatical and Jubilee cycles. It is all as bad as changing the days of the week so that you number them 0 to 6. Say bye bye to proper Sabbath cycles.
2. Then the Rabbi said that Abraham was born when Terah was 70 years old. Ussher had it correct. Abraham was born when Terah was 130 because Abraham was 75 when Terah died at 205. I won't go into the proof yet, since Ussher already proved it. This is just a bill of particulars or indictment.
3. Those were the only two errors made by Halaphta -- so far. But it was sufficient to do the following damage:
a. The seven years of plenty and seven years of famine no longer line up with the sabbatical cycle.
b. The year of Jubilee no longer lines up with the end of the seventh year of famine as is implied.
c. The cycle does not begin counting when Israel enters the land of Canaan, like it was supposed to.
4. The next mistake made by Halaphta was in the Judges, a mistake followed by not a small number of Christian Chronologists. Halaphta overlapped the servitudes in the years assigned to the Judges, even though Judges says the "land had rest" (Jud. 3:11; 3:30; 5:31; 8:28). Josephus bears witness against him. I won't elaborate here, but this further exacerbated the following consequences:
a. Saul blew the trumpet in his 2nd year and this is a Jubilee when the "mistake" is not made.
b. David took the ark to Jerusalem with Shofar, Teruah, so this was also a Jubilee further erased by "mistake".
5. In the Kings, the Rabbi trims Ezekiel's 390 years by about 22 years.
a. Hezekiah's 16th now fails to line up with the Jubilee like Isaiah implied.
b. The destruction of Nineveh does not line up with the Jubilee like Isaiah implied.
6. Finally, we get to the Persian period where God consents to date events in terms of secular history, no doubt because it was good enough for dating. But Halaphta deletes 162 years from the history of Persia to make his 490 years work.
7. When Halaphta is done, biblical chronology is a smoking sabotaged ruin, and this is the Chronology that orthodox Jews are supposed to hold to. Here is what God says about this, "The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water" (Hosea 5:10). Judah removed the marker, and Israel fell into the pit.
There was one thing Rabbi Halaphta could not do, however, and that was erase the knowledge of the time of the Jubilee and the Sabbatical Year during his life that was still in recent memory from the Second commonwealth of Israel. Now the second Temple was destroyed in A.D. 70, however Rabbinical Jews did not keep track of things in terms of Roman dates in those days. And apparently they didn't pay too close attention to Halaphta's placing of the destruction of the city in A.D. 69, because that is just what he didin order to make the destruction of the city come out in the first year of a new sabbatical cycle. That way, he could have a complete 490 years or 70 sabbath cycles (7 x 70) to cover the period from the destruction of the first Temple to the destruction of the second.
So when is the sabbatical year? It was Tishri 1 A.D. 67 to Tishri -1, A.D. 68. And Halaphta misdated the fall of Jerusalem the next summer in A.D. 69 so that the destruction would fit his theory. (I've translated Halaphta's Seleucid dating into Roman dates for you, because that's what they used thenthe Greek era.)
Of course this is lost on a lot of Modern Jews, because they do not realize that Moses Maimonides fixed Halaphta's error in the 11th century. The Rambam shifted the destruction of the Temple to the proper "Christian" date of A.D. 70. Of course, not all of the Jews agreed with him, but that is what he did. Guess what happened to the sabbatical cycle when Maimonides did that? Yep, you got it. It shifted one year forward to keep Halaphta's explanation of Daniel 9 from falling apart. The Jewish community did not notice, having long forgotten when the seventh year was supposed to be. So that's what the received tradition is now, an 11th century "correction" that doesn't work right.
Yes, Halaphta took the correct Sabbath year in his day, built a false interpretation of Daniel 9 around it and then created Seder Olam to shorten the history of Persia by 162 years. Then he corrupted biblical chronology before that time also so that his tracks would be covered (i.e. the lack of synchronicity in the cycle).
So let's figure out Daniel 9:24-26 shall we? Around the time of the crucifixion the Sabbath year fell Tishri 1, A.D. 32 to Tishri -1 A.D. 33. The previous seven year cycle ended with the sabbath year Tishri 1, A.D. 25 to Tishri-1, A.D. 26.
Like this:
A.D. 26--S
A.D. 27--Was it here?
A.D. 28--
A.D. 29--
A.D. 30--
A.D. 31--
A.D. 32--
A.D. 33--S
A.D. 34--Or here?
Daniel 9:25-26 says, "25 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed." (New International Version).
It says "After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off". So we must seek a time that is right after a Sabbatical year. Halaphta had the right idea in putting the destruction after a sabbatical year, except the text isn't speaking about the anointed temple. It speaks about Messiah, who is the "Anointed One". So that gives us two choices for the crucifixion, A.D. 27 and A.D. 34. The former year is impossible, the earliest reasonable date being A.D. 30. So the correct year is A.D. 34.
What can we say about A.D. 34? First off, one of the world's greatest mathematicians and scientists picked this year as the correct year, Sir Isaac Newton. When the question of the year was taken up by the Jewish Scholar Solomon Zeitlin, he also settled on A.D. 34. In Newton's century, they thought Friday was possible in A.D. 34. Now we know that only Wednesday and Thursday crucifixion days are possible with the former being favored by the monthly intercalation.
Now, let us backtrack to the first sabbatical year of the "seventy sevens". Where will this fall? It falls like this:
B.C. 445--
B.C. 444--S--#1--Jerusalem rebuilt by Nehemiah
B.C. 443--
....
A.D. 33--S--#69
A.D. 34--The Crucifixion was here
So there you have it, Daniel 9 exactly calculated showing that Yeshua is the Messiah.
I'd be happy to discuss this further here
